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o o o o o o TWELVE 4JI01D (OREGON) Pelicans, Tornado Bill Tilts, Crater Opposes Southern Oregon conference laurels and state wide prestige both will be at stake at Klam ath Falls on Friday and Satur d a y nights when Klamath Union and Medford High schools contend for the leader ship in the circuit in a battle which will attract the interest of all vt Oregon prepdom. Both the Black Tornado of Medford and the Pelicans of Klamath will have other bar riers to cross in their quests for Oregon Class A-l tourney berths from District 6. But the majority Grants Pass U.R) Ray Davis, head basketball coach at Grants Pass high school for ihapast six years, submitted his resignation yesterday, to ha effective at the end of the currant school year. School officials said no suc cessor had been named. 2 of the prognosticators look for the action at Klamath Falls this week end to be the decider in the chase for the district and conference banners. The series will be one of top rated teams in the statewide polls of roaches, 0 sports writers and sportscasters. Hi e d f o r d, ranked from third to fifth, in the eyes of the "experts," rel ishes a chance to knock the Peli cans from their No. 1 perch in all the ratings. ("Ashland In Running Contiention elsewhere in the Southern Oregon loop will have Ashland playing Crater at Cen tral Point on Friday and enter taining ttle Cornets at Ashland on Saturday. Ashland is in third spot and still in the running for one of ie two berths from this district in the state tournament. The rivalry will find the Crater crew still determined and fight ing to break into the conference win column. Medford gained a split with the high-running Pelicans in their first series ef the year on the Hedrick conjrt here. But the Black Tornado will be running into a contingent much im proved over its early season showing here. And the Pels will have the advantage of their home court where more often than rit in past seasons they've Kievn Tornado teams a rough time est it. All reports indicate that the Pels are functioning with bet ter tewnwork than they demon strated here previously. Guard (liee McGill and forward Bob Niles, an ex-Medfordite. have found themselves. Cliff Suther land has come along although Klamath sources say he hasn't reached his last year's peek of effectiveness. Butch Kimpton and Glenn Moore are still their dangerous tves. Medford Better Knit At the same time the Black Tornado of Medford has come along and is a better knit, sharper scooting unit. The Tor nado will have a disadvantage in overajl height but has shown it can overcome such a deficit by the rugged work of Dick Mc Laughlin Dick Copple, Neil Plumley and Tom Hamlin. Rivals have found that the shooting of Copple. McLaughlin, Hamlin. Dick Puhl and Larry c Many Semi-Pro Baseball Clubs Being Organized Wichita, Kan. More sandlot and semi-pKv baseball leagues are being organized for the 1957 fceuson than any corresponding period in history. This was an nounced today0 by the National B a s e b all congress, governing body of nations non-pros. Most of these curcuits being franchised 9nto th fc'BC Na tional Association of Leagues Emprise "town" and industrial OsponJiSrc gjubs with the" winner auiBtrirrt a chamDionshiD trophy O through the national organiza tion by $ie Bottlers of Coca-Cola. Csadine players iS each league wilPbe honored by the national organization. The top team in n each franchised circuit will com- pete luriner lor a uei ui in wc 23rd annual National Champion ship Baseball Tournament in Wichita, starting Aug. 16, for (Be right to represent the United States in the third anual global ' scries, which for the past two years has been Staged successful ly in Milwaukee County sta d'iuS. o v Teams interested in member ship in ffie National Association of Leagues should contact at O once National Baseball Congress, Wichita (1) Kan. Complete details of the Na tional Baseball Congress pro gram will be in the 1957 Of ficial Baseball Annual, yearbook of the organization, at news stands and athletic goods stores after March 15. INVESTIGATION ASKED Topeka. Kans. (U.R) A resolution asking Congress to in vestigate the Amateur Athletic union has been sidetracked by the Kansas House and referred to a committee for further study. The strongly-worded resolution said in part that "recent actions ,f this organization purporting O lo exercise absolute jurisdiction over every amateur athlete in the U.S. has appeared to be vic ijS, cruel and vengeful.'' MAIL TRIBUNE Perkins can be deadly and that Plumley has come through with close in buckets at crucial times. And, defensively, the Medfordites earlier showed abil ity to choke the drive out of the Pelicans. Tornado efforts in practice this week have been aimed at means to get a more than even share of rebounds from the backboards and to prep an of fense against possible Klamath use of zone defense. The over all drills are geared at being ready to meet any strategy or attack of the Pelicans. Medford success may depend on its work under the back boards and its ability to halt the fast breaking offense which has been the forte of Klamath in recent games. Coach Frank Roelandt of Medford indicated that his club will open play with McLaughlin, Copple, Plumley, Puhl and Per kins in the line-up. Klamath's I crew SKipperea oy uon r eier- son, should be the usual. .Mies, Sutherland, Moore, Kimpton and McGill. Out at Central Point much of the Crater efforts have been directed at perfecting defense that will both be effective and cut down on the number of fouls. Ashland's ability to plunk Kimpton Maintains Leadership In SO Conference Hoop Scoring Butch Kimpton of Klamath Falls retained his place at the top of the scoring heap in South ern Oregon conference basket ball last week although his club was idle. With 143 total points and a 17.9 per game average Kimpton is still tops in those departments. His field goal total of 49 is still high. nirlr MrLanffhlin of Medford high is now second in total with 19.1 ipariinrf Mpl Dailev of Ash land, who has 122 and Dick Copple of Medford, who has counted up 121. Glenn Moore of Klamath is fifth with his 115 but is second to Kimpton in per SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE (For Week Ending February 8-9) Name School Butch Kimpton. Klamath Falls Dick McLaughlin. Medford Mel Dailev. Ashland Dick CoDDle. Medlord . Glenn Moore. Klamath Falls Neil PHmilcv. Medford Jack Kherhart, Ashland Fred Harrniann, Crater Jim Smith, Grant:, Pass Jack Tobiasson. Ashland Mark Fitch. Ashland Bob Niles. Klamath Falls Cliff Sutherland. Klamath Falls Larry Perkins. Medtord Lee McGill. Klamath Falls Wavne Allen. Crater -Tom Hamlin. Medford Dick Puhl. Medford Jerrv Putnam. Grants Pass Larry Henderson, Grants Pass - Team Scoring Games Medford 1S1 Klamath Falls For 564 485 417 435 416 1 10 1 Ashland tlO Grants Pass .... (10) Crater Doug Smart Pushes Beck In PCC Race Los Angeles (U.R) Larry Beck of. Washington State still is leading the individual scoring race in the Pacific Coast confer ence, at Washington's brilliant sophomore Doug Smart is in hot pursuit, it was disclosed today. Statistics released by the PCC commissioner's office showed that Beck still holds top scoring honors with a 21.6 point average during his first 10 games, but Smart is closing the gap and has averaged 20.2. Beck has scored his 216 points on 68 field goals and 80 free throws and ranks fourth and sixth, respectively, in those departments. Smart, however, is way out in front with his floor shooting, having hit 77 of 137 shots for 56.2 per cent. And in rebound ing, the six-foot, seven - inch Smart leads with 17.9 per cent, having recovered 153 of 856 to tal opportunities. Smart's figures were im proved by a spectacular perform ance last weekend as he scored 53 points in two games, hitting 19 of 28 field goal attempts (67.9 per cent, and recovering 34 rebounds. He also scored 15 points orr free throws. Three Set Pace The weekly team statistics were dominated by the three top PCC teams, California, UCLA and Washington. California, undefeated in con ference play with eight wins, leads in rebounding and total defense, Washington in total scoring and field goal defense and UCLA in free throw shoot ing. Stanford has the best field goal shooting mark. ' Washington has taken the to tal scoring lead from UCLA by score of the year Saturday night against the Bruins, 90-74. The Huskies have averaged 71.2 points per game to 71 for UCLA and Southern California. California has yielded but 54 points a game on defense and has a rebound mark of 55.8 per cent on 325 recoveries to 258 for its opponents. UCLA has hit 196 of its 271 free throw attempts for 72.4 per cent. Stanford leads in 'field goal shooting by a narrow margin over Washington, hitting 209 Thursday. February 14, 1957 Crucial Ashland in the free shots was damaging to the Comets in their previous outings. Coach Jim Nau reported that Randy Campbell has recovered from the bruise over his kidney which sidelined him in the first half of last Saturday's Medford game. Campbell, Fred Herr man, Dick Davis, Joe Teeter and Jerry Kime are the probable Comet starters. Engineering the Ashland ball control offense likely will be Jack Eberhart, Mel Dailey, Jack Tobiasson, Mark Fitch and Albert Hartwell. Basketball Scores WEDNESDAY COLLEGE GAMES Bv United Press (East) Carnegie Tech 66. Israel 43 Geneva 90. St. Francis Pa.) 58 Dartmouth 67. Brown 42 Ford ham 69. Villanova 68 Boston L. 81. MIT 62 Seton Hall 102. Canisius 87 Rutgers 69. Lehigh 63 Columbia 93. Penn 75 Penn State 59. Bucknell 56 Regis 73. Army 70 (South) Furman 99. Richmond 97 Louisville 99. Marquette 79 N Carolina 72 Wake Forest 69 Navy 72. Franklin & Marshall 66 (Midwest) Bradlev 76. St. Louis 70 Western Ky. 82. Wichita 7 Cincinnati 69. Xavier (Ohtoj 57 Notre Dame 70. Butler 65 game average with 14.2. Neil Plumley of Medford with an even 100 counters is sixth in total. Jack Eberhart of Ashland and McLaughlin each have 53 points on free shots to share the lead in that department. Klamath Falls with 60.6 still has the best per game tabulation and Medford is next with 56.4. Ashland has yielded fewer points per game than any other school, allowing foes an average of 41. Medford follows with a de fensive mark of 42.4. Scoring statistics have been compiled by Clayton Hannon, Klamath Falls Herald and News sports editor." SCORING FG FT PF TP Ave. 49 45 18 143 17.9 35 53 25 123 12.3 42 38 24 122 12.2 45 3D 28 121 12.1 35 45 2R 115 14 2 26 48 29 100 10.0 lit 53 33 85 8.5 23 35 37 81 8.1 24 23 18 73 7.3 15 40 18 70 7.0 24 22 27 70 7.0 28 13 20 69 86 23 22 20 68 8.5 29 9 24 67 67 23 16 16 62 7.7 24 ' 10 19 58 5.8 23 12 29 58 5.8 22 14 24 58 5.8 16 20 27 52 5.2 14 24 37 52 5.2 . , . Against 424 352 410 503 538 For 56.4 60 6 41.7 43.5 41.6 Against 42.4 44 0 41.0 50.3 58.8 Ashland's Frosh, Pointer 7th, 8th Hoop Clubs Win Central Point Ashland ninth grade downed the Crater fresh men 43 to 36 yesterday while Central Point seventh and eighth graders won their games with Lithian foes. CP eighth won 33 to 19 over Ashland and the seventh was victor 25 to 17. In the Frosh mix Ashland had 10 to 8. 22 to 20 and 32 to 28 period leads over the Comets. Central Point eighth had quart erly spreads of 12 to 1, 18 to 8 and 26 to 16. The Pointer seventh was ahead 13 to 6 at halftime. LINE-IPS: 43 Ash. Frosh Crater Frosh 36 F 2 Allev Michael 9 F 2 Forest Sharp 9 C 8 Hardy Woods 6 G 6 Elder Schultz G 22 Gray...:.. . Pfaff 6 Substitutions For Ashland. Tucker. Garmean 2. Pentland, Jackson. Rush, Mitchell. Brewer: for Crater, Turner, Huntley, B. Anhorn, Eldred. ' .13 CP Eighth Ash. Ei;hth 19 F 3 White Lewis 1 F 5 Foote Bronson 1 C 6 LaCasse DeBoer 8 G 14 Higinbotham Crasper 6 G 5 Allen Harris 1 Substitutions For CP., Ashland, Mickle 2. Yell; for CP Seventh Champ . Kropp Kimball. Alvarez..... Ash. Seventh 17 Robertson 3 Callahan 6 Peterson Stultz Anhorn... Baker Substitutions For CP. Cavin Vincent 1; for Ashland. Lewis 5. St. Petersburg Tourney Opens St. Petersburg. Fla. UJ.R) More than 100 leading women professionals and amateurs teed off today in the fourth annual S5.000 St. Petersburg Women's Open golf tournament. Heading the field of favorites were Fay Crocker from Montivi deo. Uruguay and Marlene Bauer Hagge. times out of 491 attempts for a 42.5 percentage mark. In field goal defense, Washington held its opponents to 217 out of 660 attempts for a 32.9 per cent mafic. Now's The Time To Prepare For SPRING PAINTING FREE ESTIMATES Commerical or Residential ACE PAINTING CO. PHONE 2-8T40 MEDFORDvWTRIB une SIPOTTTS LILLY YOKOI Ballerina of Bicycle Coming Globetrotters Will Share Spotlight With Six Top Variety Acts The Harlem Gloetrotters bas ketball team, who plays the Honolulu Surf Riders at Crater High school gym in Central Point on Friday night. March 1, will have to share the spotlight with six of the top night club acts in show business. A show-stopper is the trick bicycle artist, Lilly Yokoi, who has performed her routine on leading television shows, as well as the foremost theaters, night clubs and circuses of several continents. She recently was seen on the Ed Sullivan tele vision show in this area. The pretty American-born Japanese is the only one in the world to do the Boomerang Swing, in which she swings her bicycle around in a complete circle 125 times in rapid succe sion. Walks on Fingers Rolando, a Swedish-American import billed as the "Aristocrat of Balance," frequently steals the show from Miss Yokoi. As the climax to his thrilling balancing act, Rolando walks across a row of illuminated bulbs on his two index fingers. He is said to be the only person in the world to perform the feat. An act long to be remembered is the "Great Elimar," who is said to have one of the finest acts in the entertainment world. He is an acknowledged king of the tight rope who does an out standing juggling act while balanced on the wiggly wire. Another act which has been seen on the Sullivan TV show in this area is the famed Farias Trio of Cuba, who have shown their hand-balancing stunts in Central and South America, Can ada, Mexico, the West Indies and most large cities of the Littler Begins Texas Defense San Antonio, Tex. (U.R) Little Gene Littler opened de fense of his Texas Open golf crown today, but neither he nor anyone else in the 160-player field was an outstanding favorite in the 30th renewal of the oldest stop on the winter tour. Only once before has a cham pion ever been able to repeat in this affair and that was back in 1928 before many of the young stars of the present touring brigade were born when Wild Bill Melhorn did it. discover the at Four-door or two -door, these new Studebaker station wagons are as glamorous as a Hollywood premiere. But they're great workers, too. A spe cial two-stage rear spring lets them carry heavy loads on rough roads, and United States. The trio consists of Julio Farias, his wife Geral dine and a young partner, Steve Munoz. They will appear twice on the show, first with the two men together, and then all three, three. Jacques Cordon, who Globe trotter Owner Abe Saperstein signed when he saw him per forming in a circus in Europe, is in his seventh season with the organization. Cordon has a uni que unicycle and juggling act His tricky riding and juggling at breakneck speed atop a small table never fails to give the au dience a thrill, Saperstein says. Ex-Hoop Great on Show Tony Lavelli, ranked as Yale University's greatest All-Ameri- can basketball player, is a fea tured accordionist with the show. Lavilli, who recently named to the United States All Time College All-Star basketball team, has given up a career on the maple boards for one in music. He has 40 published songs to his credit and has played for several years with some of the country's top professional bas ketball teams. Harry Chipman, promoter of the show, said arrangements are being worked out to present half of the floor show before the Globetrotters-Surf Riders game and the remainder at half-time. The floor show is an hour and 10 minutes in length. Knickerbockers Subdue Royals By UNITED PRESS ' Maybe all the New York Knickerbockers need is a good tongue-lashing now and then to win in the National Basketball association. The beleaguered New York ers, subjected to all kinds of criticism by Coach Vince Boryla in recent weeks, snapped out of their latest swan dive Wednes day night to defeat the Roches ter Royals, 85-82. The win brought the Knicks to the .500 mark and moved them out of the Eastern division cellar past the Syracuse Nation als into third place. In other action, the Minneapo lis Lakers, driving for a playoff spot in the .Western division race, defeated the Eastern divis ion leading Boston Celtics, 115 114, and the Philadelphia War riors downed the Fort Wayne Pistons, 99-89. difference in UTILITY! DE LEIGH MOTORS n r .yf Broadmoor 4-docr still ride as comfortably as sedans. Come in and drive one. Discover for yourself Craftsmanship makes the big difference! NOW IS THE TIME TO Studebaker Brown Stops Smith To Keep Mitt Title By CHARLES TAYLOR United Press Sports Writer Miami Beach U.P.) Jubilant Joey Brown, fresh from a TKO victory in his first defense of the lightweight crown, aimed at some "fast, big money" today in a May title bout with south paw Kenny Lane. Brown received $15,924 for stopping ex - champ Wallace (Bud) Smith in the 11th round of their return title fight Wednesday night before a sell out crowd of 4,129 at Miami Beach auditorium. It was the first purse for lanky Joe of New Orleans since he won the 135-pound crown from Smith of East Orange, N. J., last Aug. 24. And, although it was the largest of his career, he said, "That's peanuts compared to what I'll make now that Smith is out of the way and my right hand is in good shape." Lane Logical Opponent Truman Gibson, executive sec retary of the International Box ing club, said, "Since Brown wants to make money in a quick fight, his logical opponent is Kenny Lane a good puncher who can really test the cham pion's chin." Champion Brown, 30, regis tered his eight straight win Wednesday night when Dr. Alex ander Robbins examined Smith in his corner after the end of the 10th round and waved his hands to signify that the bout was stopped. Smith was bleed ing from a cut inside his mouth, and he claimed he had been un- BROWN PANTHER Midget at GP Friday Lord Littlebrook Stellar Midget On GP Ring Card Grants Pass An extra special attraction this Friday night at the Josephine County Fair grounds arena will feature what is felt to be the greatest group of wrestling midgets to ever appear here. Northwest fans have raved about Lord Littlebrook, pro claiming him better than even Sky Low and Little Beaver. His honor, the Lord, will team up with the colored midget, The Brown Panther, against Pee Wee James and Major Tom Thumb. These little guys take their lumps and put on a hilarious and action packed match for the fans. Savage vs Macera Main event will see Wild Bill Savage going up against some real rough opposition in the stocky person of Luigi Macera. Savage clobbered Carreon in the ringside chairs last week but Carreon refused to take the match on a foul and was defeat ed when he tried to continue. Savage is from Illinois and when his temper blows up look out. He has wrestled in Texas and Canada since leaving here. The opening tiff will see Reggie Parks swinging back into action against the rough and tough Martino Angelo. Parks took the measure of Alec Perez last week in two straight falls and has developed quite a giant swing. Station Wagon BUY f 57 able to see properly from his left eye after a blow in the fourth round. Smith, weighing 134 pounds to Brown's 1343i, suffered his fifth straight defeat and his third consecutive loss to champion Joey. Smith lost the title on a split decision to Brown at New Orleans last August, after hav ing been outpointed by Brown in a non-title 10-rounder three months earlier. Brown fractured his right wrist in the second round at New Orleans, but the mitt was in good shape Wednesday night as he did a fast-stepping weave from side to side, avoiding awk ward Bud's attempted rushes, and sharp-shooting at him with long left jabs and straight rights. Smith s legs appeared to be gone." At 27, he no longer was able to step in with his old crushers against a fast-moving opponent. Brown was winning in such lopsided fashion when the bout was stopped that only one of the three ring officials credited Smith with a single round. The voting on a 10-points-must basis, at the end of the 10th, was 100 91, 99-92, 100-91. Smith landed a few good left hooks in the fourth and eighth sessions. However, Bud's attack gener ally was so pathetic and Brown's evasive footwork was so suc cessful that it was a dull bout, and the fans were yelling for action after the fifth round. Stock Cars Roar In Qualifying Daytona Beach, Fla. (U.R) Nearly 200 of the nation's top stqck car drivers gunned their sleek vehicles up to speeds of well over 100 miles per hour today in the qualifying trials for the week end's three big NASCAR races. One hundred drivers whizzed along the five - mile beach straightaway to determine start ing positions in Friday's 125 mile race for sportsman and modified cars. Between 30 and 40 raced against the clock for positions in the 160-mile race for late model convertibles Saturday and 60 competed for positions in the 160-mile Grand National for late model closed cars Sunday. The Grand National is the finale of the two weeks of annual speed week competition here. Wednesday's competition saw one track record fall as John Zink Jr., of Tulsa, Okla., gunned his regulation 1957 Pontiac to an average of 136.570 miles an hour. This was six miles an hour faster than the old Class 6 mark set last year. GOOD o SO GOOD IT'S REMARKABLE r f Early Times is so good that... of all the whis kies made in Kentucky and these are the world's best Kentuckians themselves pverwhelmingly choose Early Times over all other straight whiskies. Try it yourself. You'll have better times with Early Times. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY . 86 PROOF EARLY TIMES DISTILLERY COMPANY LOUISVILLE 1, KY. 4 EO Cacjers Expelled; 2 On Probation La Grande (U.R) Four mem bers of the Eastern Oregon col lege basketball team were ex pelled from school yesterday and two others and the team statistician were placed on pro bation and forbidden, to take part in athletics. A spokesman said the action grew out of "severe miscon ducts" in Klamath Falls last week end were EOC lost two games to Oregon Tech. Expelled were Bill West of La Grande; Owen Stockard of Salem, and Jack Coates and Don Persinger, both of Kenne- wick, Wash. Placed on probation were Dick O'CMinell and Bill De Mastus, both from Hereford, and Al Gray, statistician from La Grande. Athletic Director Bob Quinn said there was no chance any of the players would return to action this season. Eastern Oregon now has four Oregon Collegiate conference games left with only four mem bers of its first 10. Eddie Machen Sets Exhibitions Portland tU.R) Eddie Ma chen, the California heavy weight hopeful, was back here today to prepare for a series of boxing exhibitions in the North west. Machen, ranked No. 3 among the heavyweights, has an ex hibition at Salem Saturday night to be followed by others at Eu gene and Longview in the next 10 days. GRANTS PASS WRESTLING JOSEPHINE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS ARENA FRIDAY NITE - FEB. 15th 8:30 P.M. "Extra Special Attraction" The Battling Midgets wjjl appear in an Australian Tag Team Match! Lord Littlebrook and The Brown Panther vs. Pee Wee James and Tom Thumb MAIN EVENT Best 23 (alls or 45 minutes "WILD BILL" SAVAGE, 220 Jollet, III. LUIGI MACERA, 21 0o Montreal SEMI O Best 23 falls or 45 minute MARTINO ANGELO, 20B Toledo vs. REG PARKS, 21 S Edmontono Boarbn if flatter I V , I J Tn TUB W I
